Fairlawn Haven

To pair with its relatively modest overall score, we gave this nursing home an A for its inspection grade. This score is far better than the facility's overall rating. Our inspection grades account for several factors included in a facility's inspection reports. One key criteria we weigh heavily is the number and severity of deficiencies. Nursing homes with better grades in this category generally have very few of these severe deficiencies. Although this nursing home had a few deficiencies on its inspection report, none were serious based on CMS' scale. The fact that none of the deficiencies were severe leaves us less concerned with this inspection report.

Additionally, we also would like to note that this nursing home was awarded strong short-term care marks in this assessment. We awarded them one of our better grades in this category, with a B. This turned out to be the facility's second best score. In computing our short-term care ratings, we scrutinize a facility's levels of highly skilled nursing, which includes registered nurses, physical therapists occupational therapists and other highly skilled individuals. This grade is often a useful measure of a nursing home's rehabilitation. Unfortunately, it does not appear that this facility provided registered nurse or physical therapist staffing data. Finally, we assessed the percentage of residents who were able to return to the community from this nursing home. We found that 5.7 percent of this nursing home's patients returned home.

This nursing home's third most favorable area was long-term care. We gave it a grade of C in this category. This is basically a slightly below average score in this category. In the category of long-term care, we weigh the amount of care provided by a facility, rather than more medically-intensive services. Once we assessed the amount of nursing care, we then analyzed the nursing home's vaccination statistics. We were pleased to find that this nursing home vaccinates 99.196785 percent of its patients for pneumonia. Finally, this nursing home was also able to limit hospitalizations. It had only 0.01 hospitalizations per 1,000 long-term resident days, which is an impressively low figure.

Moving on to our fourth area, we awarded this facility a D in the area of nursing. This is the facility's least impressive category rating. Unfortunately, this category hurt the facility's overall profile to some degree. Our nursing score looks at the nursing home's level of nurse staffing. We look at both the levels of licensure of those nurses and the amount of time spent with patients. This facility offered only 0.4 hours of nursing care per resident on a daily basis. This is a very low total compared to most nursing homes. On top of its weak nursing hour totals, this facility earned suboptimal scores in some of the quality-based metrics we looked at in determining our nursing ratings. We found that a higher percentage of this nursing home's patients suffered falls leading to major injury.